So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending! — J. R. R. Tolkien Dragons Copy Share Image
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. — J. R. R. Tolkien Dragon Copy Share Image
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew. — J. R. R. Tolkien Gold Copy Share Image
“There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself. You… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Thorin spoke: "Let us try the door! he said. "I must feel the wind on my face soon or die.” — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day… — J. R. R. Tolkien Disaster Copy Share Image
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait. — J. R. R. Tolkien Battle Copy Share Image
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. — J. R. R. Tolkien Christian inspirational Copy Share Image
“If you're going to have a complicated story,' he once explained, 'you must work to a map; otherwisw you'll never make a… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes , several, and all are dark and unpleasant,' said Frodo. 'Oh , that won't do!'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Book Copy Share Image
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too… — J. R. R. Tolkien Death Copy Share Image
Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Adventure Copy Share Image
Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I… — J. R. R. Tolkien Fool Copy Share Image
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours… — J. R. R. Tolkien Adventure Copy Share Image
I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been;… — J. R. R. Tolkien Autumn Copy Share Image
I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Fairy tales Copy Share Image
"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... — J. R. R. Tolkien Blessed Copy Share Image
The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears. — J. R. R. Tolkien Fear Copy Share Image
Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them. — J. R. R. Tolkien Funny Copy Share Image
All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded. — J. R. R. Tolkien Beauty Copy Share Image
Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. — J. R. R. Tolkien Abyss Copy Share Image
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.” — J. R. R. Tolkien Authority Copy Share Image
You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil. — J. R. R. Tolkien Evil Copy Share Image